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Responding to COVID-19
In light of COVID-19 we want to share the steps we have taken at the Lawson Foundation. In efforts to contribute to the national effort to curb COVID-19, as of March 16 and for the forseeable future, we’ve shifted our operations to all-remote work and therefore...
Advancing Outdoor Play and Early Childhood Education: A Discussion Paper
The Lawson Foundation is pleased to release Advancing Outdoor Play and Early Childhood Education: A Discussion Paper which is a synthesis of a multi-sector symposium convened in October 2018. The discussion paper shares the major themes of the Symposium and proposes...
Grantee Perceptions Survey Results
The Lawson Foundation in collaboration with our Foundation House partners, The Counselling Foundation of Canada and Laidlaw Foundation, recently undertook a project to gather feedback from our grant recipients. An independent organization, GrantBook, was hired to...
Reflections on outdoor play in Canada from across the pond
In October 2018, the Lawson Foundation invited Henry Mathias, Head of Professional Practice and Standards with the Care Inspectorate in Scotland to give the keynote address at its Outdoor Play and Early Learning Policy Research Symposium. Henry shared Scotland’s...
Lawson Foundation invests in 10 youth-led environmental initiatives across the country
We are pleased to announce that the Lawson Foundation is investing $2.7 million in ten youth-led environmental initiatives across Canada over three years as part of our new Youth and the Environment Impact Area. Our newest area of focus was developed in response to...
Breaking the Cycle of Diabetes in South Asians
When 14-year old Kiran Grewal joined the South Asian Adolescent Diabetes Awareness Program (SAADAP), she did it because diabetes runs in her family. Her father, her aunt (on her dad’s side) and both of her grandmothers have type 2 diabetes (T2DM), and her little...